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This seems reasonable for a read-heavy system (like Reddit). In a failure, the content on the site would just get staler and staler, but there wouldn't be a hea
by thehappypm 5y ago
This seems reasonable for a read-heavy system (like Reddit). In a failure, the content on the site would just get staler and staler, but there wouldn't be a heavy outage.
- jtsiskin 5y agoThis is like the “fail open vs fail closed” question. It depends on what is worse. For legal reasons, they might need the ability to say “yes, we can guarantee we will be no longer serving this content within 1 hour”.